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And then my heart with pleasure fills…

Spring has sprung, and the daffodils here at Special Collections are out in full force! If you’re coming in or even just passing by, take a moment to enjoy them. […]

‘The making of world literature in the 1920s and 1930s’ – don’t miss the last in the current Archives & Texts series!

Professor Daniel Göske, Christian Weiß (Universität Kassel), ‘Inside Narratives: What Archives Tell Us about the Making of World Literature in the 1920s and 1930s’ Marketing international modernism in the 1920s […]

Happy #WorldBookDay from Special Collections!

It’s #WorldBookDay: a day to celebrate everything book and reading related, from authors to illustrators to publishers… Since 1995, the first Thursday in March has been celebrated as World Book […]

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!

Guest post from Dr John Holmes, Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Reading, to celebrate Darwin Day: a global celebration of science and reason held on the birthday anniversary of […]

Seminar series: Archives and Texts

Spring Term 2014 Archives & Texts seminar series Spring Term 2014 Monday 27th January (wk 3) Professor Alexis Weedon and Professor Bob Owens (University of Bedfordshire) ‘Researching the Publishing History […]

OBE for Beckett expert

Welcome back! We start the new year with some exciting news for our Beckett scholars. Emeritus Professor Jim Knowlson was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List for […]

The word spreads about ‘Reading at War’… even Tony Blackburn’s talking about it!

The Reading Connections project aims to develop community engagement through the creation of digital resources, oral histories, exhibitions around the theme of ‘Reading at War’ and local Reading photography based on […]

Readerships and literary cultures 1900-1950

Archivist Nancy Fulford reports back from the first of the University’s ‘Archives and Texts’ seminars. For information on the rest of the series, see http://archivesandtexts.wordpress.com/. ‘Readerships and literary cultures 1900-1950’ was the […]

MERL Seminar Series 2013: Women and the Countryside

Here at Special Collections, we’re linked to the collections and work of the Museum of English Rural Life. Our visitors may be interested in this year’s MERL Seminar Series, which […]

Archives & Texts lecture series

An autumn series from the Department of English Literature and Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, open to all University members. Monday 21 October (wk 3) Dr Erica Brown (English, […]